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People who use non-QWERTY keyboards: what do you use?
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I retrained myself in Dvorak many years back, and really enjoyed using it much better than QWERTY. I had to revert back to qwerty because of commercial standardizations/limitations at different workplaces, unfortunately.
All that to say that workman layout seems even better after reading that article. I don't really see myself making the effort to switch again, but I enjoyed reading about it. Thanks for sharing.
It's been a while since I've tried Dvorak, so I'm not very confident in my memory, but, iirc, I remmeber Dvorak causing some discomfort in my wrists. Not as bad as QWERTY, mind you, but I found that Workman was much more comfortable for me. Plus, I found that the general proximity of Workman to QWERTY, when compared with the proximity of Dvorak to QWERTY, made it much more convenient to use. For example, on Workman, copy and paste (ie
Ctrl+CandCtrl+V) are each just moved over one key to the right ^[1]^, whereas Dvorak puts them on the opposite end of the keyboard ^[2]^, that is, when comparing them with QWERTY ^[3]^.References
Cis 4 to the right on the bottom row.Vis 5 to the right on the bottom row.Cis 8 to the right on the top row.Vis 9 to the right on the bottom row.Cis 3 to the right on the bottom row.Vis 4 to the right on the bottom row.